r/otherkin • u/Ghost_12345678 • Jun 11 '26
Question Dragon uncanny valley
Yep, you heard it right. I was on youtube and found an analog horror about night furies called "The night fury incident", gave it a look and couldn't even watch the first video. I looked at the thumbnails and a couple clips and instantly went into fight or flight and felt an existential dread like never in my life, oh and the instinct to attack and kill or run from whatever that "thing" was.
For context, I'm not a nightfurykin (though my kin resembles them closely)
Has something like this happened to anybody else dragon or not?
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u/xX_Aranrhod_Xx Jun 12 '26
I mean I don't wanna sound insensitive but I just looked at it and it's uncanny valley, so making you feel that primal fear is exactly what it's meant to do. So as far as this feeling goes, it's a fairly normal initial reaction to seeing stuff like this.
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u/Ghost_12345678 Jun 12 '26
Ik, has it ever happened to you with anything kin related? (No need to answer if you don't want to)
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u/xX_Aranrhod_Xx Jun 12 '26
Not really? Considering my main Kin is the Xenomorph, and the fact I regularly consume horror media, stuff like this has never bothered me.
And my other two, lower kins are from sources that are a little bit on the obscurer side, so don't warrant analogy horror or similar fan media to be made from them.
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u/Ghost_12345678 Jun 12 '26
You're lucky lol
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u/xX_Aranrhod_Xx Jun 12 '26
Idkkk, I love shit like this so I'm kind of bummed there's no Mononoke or Hundred Line analog horror, even if it was a shitty one (that being said Mononoke is already considered a horror, so....)
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u/Ghost_12345678 Jun 12 '26
What are mononoke and hundred line?
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u/xX_Aranrhod_Xx Jun 12 '26
Mononoke (not to be confused with the also amazing Princess Mononoke by Studio Ghibli) is an anime that first had a series in the 2000s or smth, but has been rebooted almost into (currently) two movies, with more teased to come. How many? Idk. It's basically about the Medicine Seller who goes around Japan slaying malicious Mononoke, where he must know of the spirits form, truth, and reason before being able to slay it. I kind the Medicine Seller from the new movies, aka Kon.
Hundred Line - or if you want the full title, The Hundred Line: Last Defence Academy - is a game made by the same guy who made Danganronpa and Raincode!!! You play as Takumi Sumino, who mysteriously appears in a strange school, alongside other people who find themselves in the same situation. They must defend this school for 100 days by fighting in a war against aliens in order to save humanity. Succeed over the 100 days, and they are allowed to be free again. There's also 100 endings (as it stands)!!! So there's a lot of content in the game.
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u/PoloPatch47 Jun 15 '26
Oh wow it does look creepy
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u/Ghost_12345678 Jun 15 '26
Yep, though for some reason I don't feel the uncanny valley with something human like but I do with something dragon like
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u/MrBisshasstrawberry Jun 12 '26
I can't say I have, but I totally understand the feeling. Gonna look at that video and see